Cultivate Interactive Issue 7: Features
IST Projects:
- ARTISTE image retrieval system puts European
galleries in the picture: Matthew Addis, Paul Lewis, Kirk
Martinez and other members of the ARTISTE consortium review its
achievements in developing an image retrieval system based on metadata and content
that explores and analyses thousands of images from major art galleries across Europe.
- COINE : Cultural Objects in Networked Environments :
Peter Brophy explains how this project seeks to
encourage and enable ordinary citizens to tell and share their stories in
networked spaces so that citizens can record, share and preserve
their own personal and community cultures.
- COVAX: Robin Yeates reports
on the investigation by the COVAX Project into the suitability of XML in
providing integrated access to collections and materials in libraries, museums
and archives.
- KALLIOPE : Jutta Weber
writes about an initiative which enables all institutions in Germany holding
hand-written documentation of a European cultural nature to present data effectively
about their holdings, and themselves, on the Internet.
- The PRESTO Project: shows how to preserve
Multimedia in the most cost-effective fashion. Richard Wright
highlights the problems confronting broadcasting organisations and how technical
developments produced by the PRESTO Project can help.
- PULMAN -rolling on by night and day :
Rob Davies gives us a progress report on Europe's Thematic
Network for Public Libraries and cultural institutions operating at local level.
- SciX -towards open scientific publishing:
Ziga Turk, Bo-Christer Björk and Bob Martens
provide a very telling insight into current practices in the relationship between
publicly funded researchers and the commercial scientific publishing industry.
They see the existing situation as quite unsatisfactory and show how the SciX Project might
redress the situation.
- TOURBOT - interactive museum tele-presence through robotic avatars:
Panos E. Trahanias writes of the achievements of a project
which developed a way to provide remote users with a tele-presence in museums in
the sturdy shape of TOURBOT.
- VALHALLA - linking historic garden records with real-time web video:
John Counsell explains how this project aims to provide in-depth comparative historic garden information, linking Hatfield House
in Hertfordshire with the Château de Villandry on the Loire in France..
Other Areas:
- Towards a Digital Cultural Content Forum: Paul Miller, David
Dawson and John Perkins report on the second in a series
of international meetings at which representatives of cultural content creation
programmes from around the world work towards greater collaboration.
- WebWatching National Node Web Sites:
Brian Kelly reviews the CULTIVATE National Node Web sites using
a variety of automated tools, and makes some comparisons with a survey of National
Focal Point Web sites.
Date of Page: 11 July 2002
